Russia has recently become one of the top migrants receiving countries. Still economic analysis of immigration to Russia is scarce. In this paper we use data from 2007 and 2009 Tajik Living Standards Survey to describe a typical Tajik migrant in Russia and estimate migrant-natives wage...

In this paper we analyze the possible effect of the changes in the taxation of cross-border e-commerce on the poverty rates and income distribution in Russia. Our results suggest that lowering the limit of the value of goods for customs-free import would affect mostly rich households. The effect...

The offi cial poverty measurements in Russia are based on per capita welfare aggregate. We estimate economies on household size in consumption by different methodologies ranging from methods based on Engel curves to estimations of economies of scale using subjective questions. We demonstrate...